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CNN shuts down Casey Neistat’s Beme, but some of its digital news tech will live on
CNN’s attempt at expanding its digital news business by bringing in a top YouTube creator has failed. According to a confirmed report from BuzzFeed, CNN is closing down YouTube star Casey Neistat’s video business, Beme, which it bought for a reported $25 million back in 2016. In addition, the YouTuber and his co-founder, Matt Hackett, are also leaving the company. Neistat spoke… Read More
CNN throws in the towel on Casey Neistat and Beme
Almost two years ago, CNN made a blockbuster move to bring in one of YouTube’s biggest stars with the dream of making a next-generation news outlet for young people.
On Thursday, CNN announced that it’s throwing in the towel on that effort. The compa…
Jimmy Kimmel skewers Trump’s Fake News Awards with a little help from his dad
Donald Trump’s Fake News Awards didn’t exactly go to plan. In fact, it was a shitshow.
Jimmy Kimmel relished in the non-event that was Trump’s made up award show, meant to criticize news outlets that aren’t Fox & Friends, on his show Wednesda…
CNN’s Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper don’t mince words: Trump’s comments were ‘racist’
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Nobody should be surprised Donald Trump said something racist. Before election day, he said many undocumented Mexican immigrants were “rapists” and criminals, and his company was sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against black tenants — way back in 1973.
And yet, he continues to outdo himself. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he reportedly said on Thursday, referring to people from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries. He then suggested bringing in more immigrants from Norway — you know, white people.
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Stephen Miller was escorted off set after his fiery CNN interview
A hostile interview between Trump aide Stephen Miller and CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday was certainly an eyebrow raiser.
As first reported by Business Insider, Miller had to be escorted off set by security following his interview after being asked to “…
Tense CNN showdown with Trump staffer leaves supporters of both sides feeling like they won
2018 is already off to a surreal, hot fire start thanks, in part, to a lot of fire and fury over Michael Wolff’s new book on the first year of the Trump administration and the debate over what’s true and what’s not.
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Nicole Kidman perfectly shuts down Andy Cohen and his dumb questions
In the whirlwind of a year that was 2017, you’d be forgiven if you forgot that, way back in February, Nicole Kidman clapped weirdly at the Oscars.
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‘A dog’s breakfast’ explained for everyone confused by that CNN alert
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CNN sent out a news alert Wednesday that was … well, a little confusing to some people.
Here’s what it said: “Analysis: With Trump at the helm, US policy in the Middle East has been a dog’s breakfast of confusion and contradiction.”
Yes, “a dog’s breakfast.” If you had no idea what that meant, you weren’t alone.
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— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 28, 2017
Hi @cnn what the heck does this even mean? “a dog’s breakfast of confusion”? Is that even a saying? If it is, why use it in this context? This is…oddpic.twitter.com/ZPppLzc0WO
— Justin Myers (@JustinJCMyers) December 28, 2017 Read more…
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View More ‘A dog’s breakfast’ explained for everyone confused by that CNN alertCNN is killing its Snapchat news show only four months after its debut
CNN is giving up on its Snapchat news show, which launch only four months ago. “The Update,” as the program was called, had been designed for Snapchat’s vertical video format, but didn’t feature video produced only for Snapchat, nor did it have dedicated anchors. Instead, the news featured on “The Update” was a curated selection of CNN’s reporting from… Read More
CNN pulls the plug on its daily Snapchat show
CNN is canceling The Update, a daily show on Snapchat that premiered in August and covered hard news with breaking updates throughout the day.
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The decision to pull away from…
Time-Warner’s Turner opts for AWS as its preferred cloud provider
All of the hyper-scale cloud providers love to tout their new customer acquisitions: Google talking about Spotify; Microsoft signing up various Adobe services for Azure; or AWS working with the likes of GE. That’s a sign of how competitive this market is, despite AWS’s continuing market share leadership. At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s cloud… Read More